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Therapy: An Alex Delaware Novel
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Therapy: An Alex Delaware Novel
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Therapy: An Alex Delaware Novel

Written by Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by John Rubinstein

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Jonathan Kellerman has made the psychological thriller his own gripping province with his bestselling series of Alex Delaware novels. Now, Delaware's new adventure leads the sleuthing psychologist on a harrowing exploration into the realm he knows best: the human psyche, in all its complexity, mystery, and terrifying propensity for darkness.

"Been a while since I had me a nice little whodunit," homicide detective Milo Sturgis tells Alex Delaware. But there's definitely nothing nice about the brutal tableau behind the yellow crime-scene tape. On a lonely lover's lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each bears a single gunshot wound to the head. The female victim has also been impaled by a metal spike. And that savage stroke of psychopathic fury tells Milo this case will call for more than standard police procedure. As he explains to Delaware, "Now we're veering into your territory."

It is dark territory, indeed. The dead woman remains unidentified and seemingly unknown to everyone. But her companion has a name: Gavin Quick-and his troubled past eventually landed him on a therapist's couch. It's there, on familiar turf, that Delaware hopes to find vital clues. And that means going head-to-head with Dr. Mary Lou Koppel, a popular celebrity psychologist who fiercely guards the privacy of her clients . . . dead or alive.

But when there's another gruesomely familiar murder, Delaware surmises that his investigation has struck a nerve. As he trolls the twisted wreckage of Quick's tormented last days, what he finds isn't madness, but the cold-blooded method behind it. And as he follows a chain of greed, corruption, and betrayal snaking hideously through the profession he thought he knew, he'll discover territory where even he never dreamed of treading.

As provocative as it is suspenseful, Therapy is premier Kellerman that finds the award-winning author firing on all creative cylinders-and carrying readers on an electrifying ride to a place only he can take them, for an experience they won't soon forget.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 20, 2004
ISBN9780739309681
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Therapy: An Alex Delaware Novel
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Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, and True Detectives. With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he coauthored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. He is also the author of two children’s books and numerous nonfiction works, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children and With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. 

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I have been trying to read all the Alex Delaware books in order and have been enjoying the series, but this book was quite convoluted and I lost interest in a couple of areas. Alex and Milo get involved in a murder of a young couple and through the investigation think it ties into a murder of a woman from a year earlier. The psychologist, who the young man was seeing to deal with a closed head injury, also turns up dead. A Rawandan investigator turns up and he is following one of the suspects that Milo and Alex are watching. Medical fraud becomes involved and it is rather tangled up. The ending was not what I expected at all but overall, I did enjoy it and will read more from the series.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I have decided to go back and read some authors I like, but haven't read in awhile. I used to read a lot of Jonathan Kellerman books. This was another good one. I guess I missed a couple of books, because I didn't know Alex and Robin had broken up. I was a little saddened by this, because I liked their relationship.

    The actual mystery in this book was a little confusing. Too many suspects, and a really convoluted relationship between them all. I never felt there was much closure on why Gavin, the first victim, was murdered. And the ending scene, in the park, was a little bit hard to believe. Still, I enjoyed reading it, and will seek out more books in the series.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I actually have earlier books in the series to read, but it turns out that they are all paperback and already packed away. This book confirms to myself that I prefer the later books in this series. The plot line in this one was one of the more convoluted ones, but it still has that maturity that is missing from the earlier books. I enjoyed it, but it took me longer to read than normal. Not sure if that was because of the book or other circumstances"¦
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A methodical crime procedural which whilst paced rather slowly still has a pretty good plot.The wrap up of the story became a little far fetched, however the development and investigation phase of the plot were both interesting and at least somewhat realistic.Some paragraph openings reminded me a little of 1950s hard boiled detective shows with a jaded narrator which were certainly atmospheric albeit a little at odds with the feel of the rest of the novel.Overall, upper end of the mid-range crime novel genre. Won't keep you up all night wanting to turn the pages, but not terrible either.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    There are several reasons why buying a book in paperback is so much more worthwhile than going straight for the hardback. A paperback book is easy to lug around and fits nicely in my purse. A paperback is less expensive to buy, and if it is not quite as good as I had hoped, I feel less guilty about spending money on it than I do if I buy the book in the hardback edition. And yet, when an author I really like comes out with a new book, I can hardly wait to read the latest book, especially when I’ve come to the end of the series and am waiting on that one particular book that was just published.

    It was because of this that I jumped right at the chance to pick up a copy of Jonathan Kellerman’s Therapy. Over the years, I have grown quite fond of Mr. Kellerman’s characters: Milo Sturgis, the gay macho homicide detective who likes to eat, and Alex Delaware, the child psychologist who is a police consultant and sometimes-amateur detective. Therapy began well, the story evolving and growing into a promising suspenseful mystery as Milo and Alex try to unravel the motive behind the death of two young lovers and discover who the murderer might be. More death follows when the therapist who had been treating the murdered young man turns up dead herself, the victim of the same murderer. As Milo and Alex dig deeper into the lives of those who knew the victims and try to learn the identity of the young woman impaled with a spear along side the murdered young man, they uncover a conspiracy of fraud and deceit.

    Unlike previous books by Mr. Kellerman, this one seemed to involve more discussion between the main characters about the motive of the crimes and the suspects and was less about the investigation itself. The appearance of an African man accusing one of the suspects of being involved with the murder of two young boys in Rwanda seemed a little off course from the story. And while the murders of the young couple and the therapist came to a predictable conclusion, what was to follow seemed a little far-fetched, not really fitting in well with the rest of the story. While I am glad to have the latest Jonathan Kellerman book behind me, I cannot help but think I should have waiting for it to come out in paperback.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Interessanter Plot, der erst am Ende aufgelöst wird. Action gibt es hier wenig, dafür jede Menge Ermittlungsarbeit und auch psychologische Einblicke und Erkenntnisse.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    An Alex Delaware murder mystery. Well written in Kellerman's terse but friendly style. Its written in the first person from the point of view of the psychologist Alex Delaware. The gore is kept to a minimum and the unravelling of the mystery is what kept me reading till the end. An enjoyable read
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Surprisingly complex whodunit, a double killing leads to a hunt for a international cast of bad guys and girls.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    The bad and stupid characters are early guessed and then the pieces work themselves together almost agonizingly so.Predictability is not always bad. This is a good book to leave in the car for those times you get stuck waiting for somebody or you have a few minutes to kill - you can pick up the plot without much thought.Suggestion: the author, Jonathan Kellerman, needs a geography lesson. Sacramento is where the legislature meets in California. Abandon your created city, it is annoying.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I like any by this author. This one is especially memorable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Jonathan Kellerman seems to be following the John Sandford path: as both authors try to keep their popular and long-running murder mystery series going, their plots have become increasingly baroque and unlikely. I guess they're doing their very best not to repeat themselves, but the goings-on here in 'Therapy' are so convoluted and crazy, and require so many labored recaps via conversations between Alex Delaware and Milo the detective, that the book really suffers for it. A simpler plot with the same strong characters would be so much better -- I'd even settle for some repetition!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Tone of language: Friendly, confidingPlot twists: Lots of false leadsCharacters: Extremism causes eccentricityValues: Innocence vs. greedPace: Unfolds before your eyesBackground research: Parole proceduresSexuality: Lusty background storiesEnding: Complex wrap-upOffensive to any group: Therapists; Do-goodersTarget audience: EverybodyFlaw: bad guys are predictable
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Two people turn up dead, one of them was in therapy with a woman who has got on the wrong side of Alex Delaware before. Interesting and very readable.